The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force in May 2018 is seen as the most comprehensible data protection legislation in the world. While the GDPR is a powerful tool that creates a broad array of new rights regarding personal data for all EU citizens it can also be used by... Find out more

The EU has set itself a difficult task to accomplish: reduce CO2 emissions by 50-55% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The achievement of these goals would make it a world pioneer in climate policy. To reach these targets however, various policy instruments have been suggested in the... Find out more

An artist's work is driven by passion not necessity, so the theory goes. But does that mean artists should not have the same expectations of pay, security and conditions as any other worker? Precarity and low pay – even lack of payment – are common problems across the art world. And due to the... Find out more

Unemployment can be devastating for workers and communities, and mass unemployment threatens both the fabric of society and the collective power of workers. The effect of the Covid-19 crisis on unemployment numbers, however, depends on the policies in place to prevent layoffs, such as short-time... Find out more

Covid-19 has sharply exposed the pre-existing social and economic inequalities. In the US, Black, Indigenous and communities of color have suffered from disproportionately high rates of infection and death. In Europe, many of the migrant and posted workers have been essential workers but left... Find out more

Personal Household Services (PHS) are provided within the household, mostly by women, mainly working part time, with relatively low skills and often from a migrant background. It is a rapidly growing sector where a large share of the work is done informally. PHS workers are often precarious workers... Find out more

The New Normal: Prospects for the World of Work after the COVID Crisis Although it is not intuitive, the reduction of working time can be an important tool to mitigate the detrimental economic consequences of the Covid crisis, but also to lessen its negative impact on the (mental) health of the... Find out more

The unexpected health crisis that has hit the world a couple of months ago has brought us in an economic recession, which is likely to last and morph into an economic and financial crisis and has caused huge societal distress. What is more, the challenges facing our societies even prior to the Covid... Find out more

The New Normal: Prospects for the World of Work after the COVID Crisis The European Green Deal was launched in December 2019 as “a new growth strategy” which the EU should follow if it wants to tackle climate and environmental-related challenges – “this generation’s defining task”. Not very long... Find out more

The COVID crisis is having an unexpected and unprecedented impact on millions of people and even if most countries are slowly putting in place exit strategies, it is clear that the way we live and work will not jump back to normal any time soon. The realities and challenges for the world of work... Find out more